Shoe-fastening means.



A. E. JOHNSON.

SHOE FASTENING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED 050.2. ms.

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Patented Aug. 7, 1917.

UNITED dTATES PATENT FFIEQ ALFRED E. JOHNSON,

0F RACINE, WISCONSIN.

SHOE-FASTEN IN G MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. t, 191?.

Application filed December 2, 1916. Serial No. 134,656.

purpose to entirely dispense with the ordinary method of fastening shoes by strings or buttons, and to substitute in lieu thereof upper so that inconvenience in this respect y the wearer will be overcome.

It is a still further object of the invention to produce a shoe fastening means which. shall be of an extremely simple construction, easy to operate and effective in its said operation, and one which will tend to add to the ornamentality of the shoe.

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides in the construction, combinationv and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and fall ing within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the application of the improvement,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the iIn' provement detached, an

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken in a line with the longitudinal plane of one of the fastening means.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the numeral 1 designates the upper of an ordinary shoe. In the present instance the upper 1, adjacent the confronting edges thereof, is provided with a series of spaced button or stud members 22 arranged in oppositely disposed pairs. To the shank of Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the one of the series of buttons 2 I connect an eye 3 formed upon one end of my improved astening members 4. The opposite end of the fastener me er is formed with a hook 5 which is adapted to engage with the shank of the button 2 diametrically opposite that to which the eye is fastening member, between the hook and eye, may be, and preferably is thickened as indicated by the numerals 7-7 and formed between the said members 7 is a substantially S-sh vice between the ends thereof either longitudinally or laterally, as will, it is thought, be readily understood.

The device is preferably constructed from may be secured to one of the edges of the shoe upper in other manners than that described, it is thought that by providing two the accompanying drawing, the simplicity of the device, as well as the ad vantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectlv apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

aving thus described the invention, what I claim is:

A shoe fastener constructed from a single piece of material having one of its ends formed with an eye, its opposite end formed with a book, a handle projecting angularly from the hook, said fastener being thickened from the ends thereof and being centrally reduced and said reduced portion being formed to comprise a spring.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALFRED E. JOHNSON.

Commissioner of Patents, D. G. 

